Refugee Cooperative Members in UNHCR Sub-office Operational Area of Melkadida 2023
Baseline-Endline Panel Survey

Ethiopia, 2023

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Reference ID

ETH_2023_IKEA_v01_M

Producer(s)

UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Collection(s)

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

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May 18, 2026

Last modified

May 18, 2026

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Identification

Survey ID number

ETH_2023_IKEA_v01_M

Title

Refugee Cooperative Members in UNHCR Sub-office Operational Area of Melkadida 2023

Subtitle

Baseline-Endline Panel Survey

Abbreviation or Acronym

IKEA 2023

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Ethiopia	ETH

Study type

Other Household Survey [hh/oth]

Abstract

This panel survey data covers two waves of interviews (baseline in 2020 and endline in 2023) with refugee participants in livelihoods cooperatives in Ethiopia's Somali Region. The cooperatives focused on crop agriculture, meat-selling, solar energy, and prosopis/briquettes. The surveys gathered demographic, socioeconomic, and health data on the individual participants. Baseline had 515 respondents, endline had 394, with 77% overlap between the two waves. The data is not representative of the general refugee population in the region. It provides insights into livelihoods programming for refugees in Ethiopia.

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Household

Version

Version Description

Version 2.1: Edited, cleaned, and anonymised data.

Version Date

2023-10-06

Scope

Notes

The scope includes:

household characteristics
financial inclusion
food security
assets
coperative livelihood

Topics

Topic
Livelihood and Social cohesion
Agriculture
Food security
Environment

Keywords

Livelihood Social cohesion Cooperatives Income generation

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)	UN

Producers

Name
IKEA foundation
Green Professional Services
Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
TANGO International

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

The sampling involved a census of refugee members from selected cooperatives (4 agriculture, 5 meat-selling, 5 solar, 1 prosopis) interviewed at baseline in 2020 and endline in 2023, with a 77% overlap between the two waves.

Full census approach was employed within each identified cooperative cluster.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

Income, food consumption, expenditures, assets, community relations, wellbeing, resilience, mental health, health, and cooperative activities. Specific topics included savings, loans, food security, income sources, assets, shocks, healthcare access, aspirations, and cooperative modules. The multi-topic questionnaire provides insights into the socioeconomic situation and cooperative participation of refugees in Ethiopia.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2023-01-27	2023-02-12

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Data Collectors

Name
Green Professional Services
Oxford Refugee Studies Centre
TANGO International

Data Collection Notes

Local trained enumerators conducted computer assisted personal interviews for the baseline in 2020 and endline in 2023. Different organizations collected the baseline for some cooperatives while oversight was provided by TANGO International during the endline survey.

Data Access

Citation requirements

UNHCR (2023). Ethiopia: Baseline-Endline Panel Survey of Refugee Cooperative Members in UNHCR Sub-office Operational Area of Melkadida, Ethiopia, 2023. Accessed from: https://microdata.unhcr.org

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email
Curation team	UNHCR	dencomdl@unhcr.org

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_ETH_2023_IKEA_v01_M

Producers

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
UN Refugee Agency	UNHCR	UN	Metadata producer
Development Data Group	DECDG	The World Bank	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Date of Metadata Production

2023-10-17

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Identical to a metadata (UNHCR_ETH_2023_IKEA_v2.1) published on UNHCR catalog (https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/home). Some of the metadata fields have been edited.

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Refugee Cooperative Members in UNHCR Sub-office Operational Area of Melkadida 2023 Baseline-Endline Panel Survey